A photo posted by Burlingame Public Library (@burlingame_library) on Mar 27, 2015 at 10:55am PDT

The subjects of #bookface range from graphic novels to biographies and self-help manuals. Most have a human subject or two, but even that isn't a given. Speaking from experience, making a good #bookface photo isn't easy. It takes a trained eye to spot the composition: A green-haired man as the Joker, or a Bob Hope lookalike with an uncannily similar hairline. It's all in the details.

Give it a shot. Stage your own #bookface, and tweet @sideshow with the results.

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